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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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MISFORM v.
To make in an ill form. Spenser.
MISGIVE v. 4 definitions
What may befall him, to his harm and ours. Shak. Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. Milton.
MISGOVERN v.
To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country. Knolles.
MISGOVERNED a.
Ill governed, as a people; ill directed. "Rude, misgoverned hands." Shak.
MISHANDLE v.
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
MISHAP n. 2 definitions
Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.
MISHAPPEN v.
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
MISIMPROVEMENT n.
Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
MISLUCK n.
Ill luck; misfortune.
MISMANAGE v.
To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
MISMANAGER n.
One who manages ill.
MISORDER v. 2 definitions
To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. [Obs.] Shak.
MISPAINT v.
To paint ill, or wrongly.
MISSAY v. 3 definitions
To speak ill. [Obs.] Spenser.
MISSHAPE v.
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.
MISSIS n.
A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. G. Eliot.
MISTEMPER v.
To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.
MISTHINK v. 2 definitions
To have erroneous thoughts or judgment of; to think ill of. [Obs.] Shak.
MISUSE v. 4 definitions
To abuse; to treat ill. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak.
MISWEAR v.
To wear ill. [Obs.] Bacon.
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